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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2014.05.15 - 21330MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #14112 May 15, 2014 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, TOM MIDDLETON, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGETNVATER RESOURCES COMMISSIONER - APPROPRIATION TO LONG-TERM REVOLVING FUND FOR SANITARY SEWER PROJECTS CONSTRUCTED UNDER CHAPTER 4 OF THE MICHIGAN DRAIN CODE TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS pursuant to Miscellaneous Resolution *92252, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners established a Long-Term Revolving Fund for the purpose of providing financing for specific capital projects as approved by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners with the funds advanced being recovered through special assessments, or contracts with municipalities or drainage districts; and WHEREAS pursuant to Miscellaneous Resolution #89276, interest on loans on such projects should be computed and compounded quarterly. The rate of interest on the loans should be at an interest rate no less than the prevailing six-month Treasury Bill rate; and WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #02019, provided additional funding in the Long Term Revolving Fund due to increasing demand for various projects bringing the total balance in the Long- Term Revolving Fund to $1,491,000; and WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #02019 stated that each project loan shall not exceed $150,000; and WHEREAS there have been exceptions to the $150,000 loan amount with the -exception requested in the specific project resolution; and WHEREAS requests for a loan or advance is anticipated by the Water Resources Commissioner to the Board of Commissioners for approval and will include the terms of the loan and/or advance; and WHEREAS $1,000,000 is requested to provide additional funding for sanitary sewer projects constructed under Chapter 4 of the Michigan Drain Code, Act 40 of the Public Acts of 1956, as amended, ("Michigan Drain Code") that would then bring the total funding in the Long-Term Revolving Fund to $2,491,000; and WHEREAS providing additional funding in the Long-Term Revolving Fund for such projects reduces the need to bond for such projects which reduces the costs for the various improvements; and WHEREAS funding is available in the General Fund Assigned Fund Balance titled WRC Long- Term Revolving Fund (GL Account #383549). NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners affirms its commitment to provide funding options by offering loans and advances from the County's Long-Term Revolving Fund to finance sanitary sewer projects constructed in accordance with Chapter 4 of the Michigan Drain Code that do not require the issuance of bonds. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the loan or advance shall be evidenced by an agreement between Oakland County and the Drainage District that shall be approved by the Department of Corporation Counsel and subject to approval of the Board of Commissioners. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that funding in the amount of $1,000,000 is to be transferred from the General Fund Assigned Fund Balance titled WRC Long-Term Revolving Fund (GL Account #383549) to the Long-Term Revolving Fund for sanitary sewer projects constructed in accordance with Chapter 4 of the Michigan Drain Code approved by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the FY 2014 budget is amended as follows: General Fund #10100 FY 2014 Revenue 9010101-196020-665882 Planned Use of Balance $1,000,000 Expense 9010101-196020-788001-46200 Transfer Out $1,000,000 -0- FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE: Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Woodward absent. Long-Term Revolving Fund #46200 Revenue 6010101-155010-695500-10100Transfer In Expense 6010101-155010-796500 Budget Equity Adjustment $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $ -0- Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. Resolution #14112 May 15, 2014 Moved by Crawford supported by McGillivray the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). AYES: Dwyer, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Bosnic, Crawford. (19) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). I HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIK_ ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7) STATE OF MICHIGAN) COUNTY OF OAKLAND) I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on May 15, 2014, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 15th day of May 2014. Lisa Brown, Oakland County